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'''Martin Kulldorff''' (born 1962), is a professor of medicine at [[Harvard Medical School]] and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the [[Brigham and Women's Hospital]].<ref name="DFHCC">{{cite web|url=https://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/martin-kulldorff-phd/|title=Martin Kulldorff, PhD|website=Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center|access-date=13 February 2021}}</ref>
'''Martin Kulldorff''' (born 1962, Lund in Sweden), is a professor of medicine at [[Harvard Medical School]] and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the [[Brigham and Women's Hospital]].<ref name="DFHCC">{{cite web|url=https://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/martin-kulldorff-phd/|title=Martin Kulldorff, PhD|website=Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center|access-date=13 February 2021}}</ref> He also sits on scientific committees at the [[Food and Drug Administration]], and the [[Centre for Disease Control]].<ref name=umu/>


== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==

Revision as of 10:08, 2 September 2021

Martin Kulldorff
Born1962 (age 61–62)[1]
Lund, Sweden[1]
NationalitySwedish
Alma materUmeå University
Cornell University
Known forCo-author of Great Barrington Declaration
Scientific career
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
ThesisOptimal Control of Favorable Games with a Time Limit (1989)
Doctoral advisorDavid Clay Heath

Martin Kulldorff (born 1962, Lund in Sweden), is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.[2] He also sits on scientific committees at the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centre for Disease Control.[1]

Early life and education

Kulldorff was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1962, the son of Barbro and Gunnar Kulldorff. He grew up in Umeå, and received a BSc in mathematical statistics from Umeå University in 1984.[1] He then moved to the United States for his postgraduate studies as a Fullbright fellow,[1] obtaining a PhD in operations research from Cornell University in 1989. His PhD thesis, titled Optimal Control of Favorable Games with a Time Limit, was written under the direction of David Clay Heath.[3]

Career

Biostatistics

Kulldorff developed a free SaTScan software program used for geographical and hospital disease surveillance as well as a TreeScan software program for data mining. He is the co-developer of the R-Sequential software program for exact sequential analysis.[4][non-primary source needed] However, his key scientific contribution is the development of the statistical and epidemiological methods that are used in the software. These methods include spatial and space-time scan statistics, the tree-based scan statistics and various sequential analysis methods.[5][non-primary source needed]

COVID-19 pandemic

Kulldorff is one of the three authors, along with Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya, of the 2020 Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated letting COVID-19 spread in lower-risk groups to promote herd immunity while advocating "focused protection" of older, high-risk people.[6][7] The World Health Organization (WHO) and many other academic and public-health bodies said the declaration's strategy lacked a sound scientific basis,[8][9] warning that it could cause many unnecessary deaths, make it challenging to shield medically vulnerable people, undermine herd immunity by the limited duration of post-infection immunity, and that it was most likely to cause recurrent epidemics; and noting that the long-term effects of COVID-19 were not yet understood.[10][11]

Kulldorff has questioned the scientific rigour behind the rationale for lockdowns, contact tracing and mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has appeared at media events to support the Great Barrington Declaration.[12][13][14][15][16][17] He has spoken out against COVID-19 vaccine passports, but has said he supports vaccinations.[18]

Other

Kulldorff is a member of the scientific council for drug safety and risk management at the Food and Drug Administration.[1]

Kulldorf is a member of the scientific committee for evaluating side effects after covid-19 vaccination at the Centre for Disease Control.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Harvard statistician appointed honorary doctor at the Faculty of Science and Technology". www.umu.se. Umeå University. August 10, 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  2. ^ "Martin Kulldorff, PhD". Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  3. ^ Martin Kulldorff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Silva, Ivair; Gagne, Joshua; Najafzadeh, Mehdi; Kulldorff, Martin (2019-11-25). "Exact sequential analysis for multiple weighted binomial end points". Statistics in Medicine. 39 (3): 340–351. doi:10.1002/sim.8405. PMC 6984739. PMID 31769079.
  5. ^ "Package 'Sequential'" (PDF). 2021-02-21. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  6. ^ Burki, Talha Khan (2021-02-01). "Herd immunity for COVID-19". The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 9 (2): 135–136. doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30555-5. ISSN 2213-2600. PMC 7832483. PMID 33245861.
  7. ^ "Why Was The Declaration Written?". Great Barrington Declaration. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  8. ^ Swanson, Ian (2020-10-05). "Trump health official meets with doctors pushing herd immunity". TheHill. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  9. ^ "Public health experts warn against herd immunity strategy to manage COVID-19". The World from PRX. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  10. ^ Hernandez, Sarah Toy and Daniela (2020-10-18). "Scientists Push Back on Herd-Immunity Approach to Covid-19". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  11. ^ "Meet the anti-lockdown doctor that conservative pundits are flocking to". Salon. 2020-11-19. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  12. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (2020-10-23). "Opinion | Epidemiologists Stray From the Covid Herd". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  13. ^ "Who Are the Scientists Behind the Great Barrington Declaration?". www.medpagetoday.com. 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  14. ^ Lenzer, Jeanne (2020-10-07). "Covid-19: Group of UK and US experts argues for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns". BMJ. 371: m3908. doi:10.1136/bmj.m3908. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 33028622.
  15. ^ "Anti-lockdown advocate appears on radio show that has featured Holocaust deniers". the Guardian. 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  16. ^ Musgrave, Jane. "Coronavirus: DeSantis lays groundwork to overturn local mask mandates, chides 'lockdown' states". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  17. ^ "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Pushes Through Pardons For Mask Mandate And COVID-19 Violators". CBS Miami. 2021-06-16. Retrieved 2021-08-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ "Gov. DeSantis: Vaccine passports are 'totally unacceptable'". NBC2 News. 2021-03-18. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
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